Red bug treatment POLL

Red bug treatment POLL

  • I treated my tank with Interceptor at the suggested dosage 3 times and now appear to be bug free.

    Votes: 91 17.4%

  • I treated my tank with Interceptor at the suggested dosage 3 times and I STILL HAVE bugs. (please po

    Votes: 3 0.6%

  • I treated my tank with Interceptor at a different dosage, or less than 3 times and now appear to be

    Votes: 97 18.5%

  • I treated my tank with Interceptor at a different dosage, or less than 3 times and I STILL HAVE bugs

    Votes: 12 2.3%

  • I have not treated yet but plan too.

    Votes: 127 24.3%

  • I am still on the fence about treating my tank.

    Votes: 114 21.8%

  • I will not put Interceptor in my aquarium.

    Votes: 79 15.1%
  • Total voters
    523
Did one treatment at ~1.5x the recomended dose, and have not seen them since. Treated about 2 mos ago.
 
i have treated again to compensate for the failure of the first one. No red bugs to be seen, and all the corals are happy and polyps are out! YAY!
 
I treated my tank once at the end of April. I was bug free until a couple days ago when I got back from vacation they were back. Preparing to try again. I had not added any corals in that time between treating and seeing the bugs again. Almost 2 months in between. Hope this info is helpful.

Dave
 
Outside of residual bugs and collateral crustacean damage; anybody have any other detrimental situations resulting directly or indirectly following a treatment (ie. RTN, Fish disappearance, abnormal water chemistry, abnormal algae.)? My polyp extension have been uncomfortably small and my bugs are yellow...apocolypse now?
 
i have recently added 2 new corals from Foster and Smith (ffexpress.com) that have BOTH RTN'd on me. I do not think it is due to the medication. But i will e-mail them about this tomorrow because it is bull crap.
 
I treated twice same as all my friends and we all saw immediate results and 4-5 months later appear to be red bug free. we treat every new coral before putting them in our tanks. I lost maybe 2 acro crabs but who cares about them anyway.nothing else lost that I could see.
 
APynckel said:
i have recently added 2 new corals from Foster and Smith (ffexpress.com) that have BOTH RTN'd on me. I do not think it is due to the medication. But i will e-mail them about this tomorrow because it is bull crap. [/QUOTE
I know you treated your tank for Red Bugs so you now need to keep them out, you need to treat all you incoming corals with the interceptor for at list 6 hours in a quarantine tank.
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I treated my tank once at the end of April. I was bug free until a couple days ago when I got back from vacation they were back. Preparing to try again. I had not added any corals in that time between treating and seeing the bugs again. Almost 2 months in between. Hope this info is helpful.
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Has anyone noticed that the only person on either thread to get bugs again did not follow the 3 dose protocal in the directions? I've been watching this thread and the other one and there are more people not following the directions than following them. Dustin did a lot of work to give us this "gift" and my motto is do it right the first time or do it again. What is the point of doing it at all if you are not going to follow through? Now this person who's bugs have come back will have to do a total of 4 treatments, and who knows if the bugs will become more resistant. Just a warning to those that choose not to follow directions. Like antibiotics a lack of symtoms does not mean that you are fully cured. TAKE ALL OF YOUR MEDICINE or don't bother
 
And - be sure to treat everything coming into your tank, Acro or not [unless coming from an Acropora-free system]. Just because it's a Monti doesn't mean a Red bug couldn't hitch a ride for the short trip to your tank.

Seems silly to treat, only to re-infect. That's my take.
 
I treated my tank I believe in May. Followed Dustins perscribed method to a T. No bugs, No noticable negative impact to date.
 
I treated my tank three times within 36 hours. No water change in between, but I did use carbon after each run. My tank has been bug free for 1 month now. I lost all my pepmint shrimps and scarlet hermits.

Sean
 
I only did 2 treatments as some life altering events happened at the time.
I noticed that the bugz are back now that I have the time again.
I am moving in 3 weeks and will be setting up a temp holding facillity in the new house. think my acros will be ok till then?
I was thinking of putting all acros into one tank and treating them.
that way I dont loose all my pods and shrimps and crabs and stuff.
or should I put all the crusties in a sepreate tank and dose all my stuff?
I have read a theory that the bugs cant live without a acro host .
so please any comments are appreaciated
 
If you didnt lose a lot of your pods shrimps and crabs the first time you might not have used enough medication. I wouldnt worry about the corals for 3 weeks. They arent actually killed by the bugs.

You could treat all your corals in a separate system, you just have to make sure that you get every little last piece of coral out of the main tank. That means you cant leave even the smallest encrusted patch left behind. If your acros are encrusted on the rocks you will need to treat the rocks too. You also have to be sure that you got every last branch and tip out. If you break off a tip of just one coral while you are taking them out you have negated the entire quarantine.

I would treat the whole tank again and again until they are gone. Post over on the main 5,000 page red bug thread and we will figure out what went wrong the first time.
 
I treat the whole tank three times at the recommended
dosage.
#1- 4-15-04
#2- 4-23-04
#3 - 5-1-04
at 7-10-04
THE BUGS ARE BACK
I'm going to treat AGAIN just with much higher dose.
:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
 
Zoom - Do you think they were reintroduced via a new coral or do you think they were not all killed in the previous doses?
 
pi said:
Zoom - Do you think they were reintroduced via a new coral or do you think they were not all killed in the previous doses?
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Was nothing new put in the tank for three months .Got three corals this week and put them in a quarantine tank with interceptor so to kill any bugs that may be on them.
I use the recommended dose my tank is 200G and 30g water in the sump i have 375 LBS of live rock so i dose 385MG of the interceptor three times in 21 days was no bugs in my tank for two mouths. I was thinking if you kill them the first time like i did they will be gone. It was nothing left in my tank everything was kill Bug,crabs. small shrimp , i don't know something did not work.
Still said may be was underdose well i just dose again this morning 500MG so will see.
I think I'm going to do a 17 day apart dose like JBNY only two times.
I don't think my vet will sell me any more Interceptor, so i only have enough to do two doses.
If the bugs come back after this i will not treat any more
 
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